New LAUC-D members Diana King and David Michalski, both of
the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Department, were introduced.

Announcements (Gail Nichols): There will be a meeting of the
statewide LAUC Executive Board next Thursday, May 2 at UCLA before the LAUC
Spring Assembly the following day. The Assembly will include a presentation on
information literacy.

University Librarianís Report (Marilyn Sharrow): Eight new
librarians have been hired in the past year. The budgetary prospects look bad,
but not as bad as had been originally projected. The next AUR (Administrative
Unit Review) will concentrate on collections. To congratulate staff for their
hard work and forbearance in preparing for the new ILS, the† Library Administration is sponsoring a
social event in the library courtyard next Friday, May 3.

Committee Reports: PAC (Bob Heyer-Gray): May 17 is the
deadline for travel requests already completed. June 13 is the deadline for
turning in travel receipts.

Nominations and Elections (Jo Anne Boorkman for Susan
Llano): The committee will meet soon and stands in need of volunteers.

PIC (Myra Appel): The committee has been necessarily quiet
this year, due to preparations for the ILS changeover. Look for more activity
in the coming academic year.

Program (Ruth Gustafson for Erin Murphy): There will be a
luncheon-chat 11:30-1:30 May 1 at Scrubs, the newly remodeled food service next
to HSL.

Research (Rebecca Davis): Two projects have been funded.
Statewide, nine proposals were received, totaling $80,000; a total of five were
funded with the $30,000 available to the statewide Research Committee. The
statewide committee will address the issue of how proposals are funded in
future meetings. Some of the smaller campuses send all their research requests
on for statewide funding, since they lack divisional funds. On May 29 there
will be a program sponsored by the Research Committee featuring recipients of
past funding talking about their research results.

Review Board (Karleen Darr for Marcia Meister): The Review
Board finished its caseload of reviews in mid-March. All librarians are now
fully transitioned to the new salary structure.

Peer Review Documents Review Committee (Gail Nichols for
Patsy Inouye): The committee has not met for a while, since members have been
caught up with ILS conversion† and
conversion training duties.

Mentoring Task Force (Karen Andrews): No meeting yet. A
listserv for social support for librarians and library staff has been stalled;
a mechanism for getting it started must be found. Some thought that there would
be no trouble in using a UCD server, even though the list would be designed to
support librarians in outside-the-job endeavors like finding housing, best
places to shop, etc.

Privacy Report (Gail Nichols): SOPAG (Systemwide Operations
and Planning Advisory Group) has appointed a task force to develop a model
policy on privacy for library-provided digital services (see http://www.slp.ucop.edu/sopag/privacytf.html).
Chair Nichols opened the floor for comments after giving a summary of the
report. Where do we keep information on individuals? For how long? What kind of
access should be allowed to this information? There was a general discussion of
circulation records, DocLine and interlibrary loan. Many libraries now require
logging in to several library activities, providing more opportunities for
privacy infringement.

Distinguished Step (Rafaela Castro): The statewide Committee
on Professional Governance is distributing a survey polling LAUC membersí
opinions of the Distinguished Step (see http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/pg/report-spring-2002.txt).
So far there have been four responses. Survey results will be submitted to the
Fall 2002 Assembly. One document so far states that the Distinguished Step is
at Librarian VI of the new scale. Should it remain there? Some campuses have
expressed opposition to a Distinguished Step. There is no connection between
the Distinguished Step and emeritus status here at UCD. If the Distinguished
Step remains at Librarian VI, there will be one step beyond it. LAUC Position
Paper No. 1 is in need of revision after the librarian series restructuring.